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Net Neutrality Complaints Rise Amid FCC Repeal (axios.com)
An anonymous reader shares a report: Internet users are complaining more about net neutrality-related issues since the FCC voted to repeal the existing net neutrality rules earlier this month, according to the FCC's consumer complaint data. The FCC allows consumers to submit complaints about a variety of telecom-related problems, from receiving unwanted phone calls to billing fraud. After adopting net neutrality rules in 2015, the FCC added net neutrality to the list of possible gripes, such as slowed-down internet service or content being blocked. The FCC can use those complaints to spot trends or even launch investigations. According to the data (via the FCC's Consumer Complaint Center), people appear to file more net neutrality complaints when the topic is in the news and people are paying more attention to their internet performance.
Wow, second post in and we have our first internet monopoly poster! The nearest Comcast to here is several hundred miles away, but I do have 3-4 local broadband options. I suspect until someone runs a fiber optic line into your house and gives you internet for free, you'll bitch about whoever your current provider is and whatever agreement you sign with them. Infrastructure like broadband cables, sewer, and electricity do not lend themselves to multiple providers in direct competition with each other. It's just the way things work. The capital expenditures are too large. And wireless is unworkable because people hog the bandwidth if you let them, and if you try to reign them so others aren't affected in they complain that you're a big asshole. The only answer is to basically ignore loudmouths like you and just keep on trying to do the best you can.
The more and more Ajit Pai and the FCC ignores what citizens are saying, the more obvious it becomes that Ajit Pai is in the hip pocket of corporations and does not care at all about what's good for U.S. Citizens.
I'm not sure. He could really believe the shit he is selling. There seems to be a deluge of false religions lately. A very common one is anything is better without regulation. There are true believers of this stuff, despite it not being true all the time.
I hate playing devils advocate, but loosening the rules might get AT&T and some of the other rather evil corporations to actually serve areas they have never bothered to serve, so maybe some good will come of this.
The real problems is not the FCC's decision, it is that the average person doesn't understand why net neutrality is important. Without net neutrality you get basically something akin to the pile of shit that is your average cable/satellite bill. "What you wanted the plan with the normal internet included? Well that is only in the ultra premium elite special package."
I wouldn't be at all surprised to see you having to buy the base cable package before you get internet sooner than later...
Uhh.. that was obvious from day one. He was installed as chairman specifically because he's in the hip pocket of corporations.
Just like a guy who doesn't believe in science runs NASA, a guy who was suing the EPA now runs the EPA, a lobbyist for the drug industry now runs the FDA, a woman with a BA from a liberal arts college runs the department of education, a guy who wanted the department of energy shutdown -- because he didn't know what the hell it actually did! -- now runs the DOE. It just goes on and on.
Basically Trump has appointed the fox to watch the hen house in almost every government agency. Its absolutely insane, and its going to do a lot of long-term damage to the US both economically and in the opinion of the rest of the world. The US is no longer going to be taken seriously when Trump does things like instructing the EPA to take down half their site because it deals with you know.. protecting the environment. Or when he tells the CDC and other science-based organizations that they shouldn't use phrases like "science-based." What the fuck is that? Does he expect the CDC to offer thoughts and prayers when there's an outbreak somewhere? I mean that's all we can be arsed to do when a shooter kills 50+ people so why put any more effort towards a disease doing the same?
The US government is a joke right now. Its sad that many within the country can't (or just refuse) to see it.. especially those in government who have the power to do something about it. Americans are blinded by Trump's spectacle and big claims and the whole reality-TV aspect of it and completely ignore that all the shit Trump does, both in front of the camera and behind the scenes, will have long-lasting and potentially disastrous consequences for the country.. probably long after Trump's gone and it'll fall on someone else' shoulders to try and pick up the pieces and put the country together again in a world where China is racing full steam ahead to overtake the US as the #1 superpower, and India is probably only 2 or 3 decades behind if they can get their shit together. The US wasting a decade going backward will make it that much harder to stay ahead of the game.